Today I tried to install the Adobe Flash Plugin for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The basic idea was to download the executable, run it and have Flash installed. The problem was that somehow the whole process got corrupted which had several consequences. The Flash Player installation running in the background was creating new temporary Flash executables [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Changing Colors of Blue Screen of Death Adds Fun to Otherwise Terrifying Sight
Time for Friday fun anyone? Maybe not fun so much, but something to amuse yourselves the next time your computer decides to have a mind of its own. There are few things that really scare hardcore Windows users. Viruses? Just be diligent with updates, and be prepared to fight an infection when it occurs. File [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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SysInternals Updater
Applications developed by SysInternals are used by many Windows technicians, system administrators and tech savvy computer users. The tool collection offers some of the best applications in their respective field, among the utilities like Autoruns, Process Explorer or Rootkit Revealer. The software programs can be downloaded separately from the website or as part of the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
Process Explorer 14 Released
Process Explorer by Sysinternals is one of those programs that every computer technician and enthusiast should have in their troubleshooting collection. Process Explorer 14 has just been released by its developer Mark Russinovich. The new version of the popular process analysis tool is considered a major update. Process Explorer shows you information about “which handles [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Autoruns For Windows 10 Released
Autoruns is the program to analyze the Windows startup. It is the most complete offering a huge feature set (which can be at times intimidating). Today Autoruns for Windows 10 has been released to the public. The new version of the popular autostart manager is offered as a free download from Technet.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Create Virtual Images Of Physical Drives With Disk2vhd
Tech savvy Windows users love Sysinternals applications. That’s a given fact and you barely stumble upon someone who has not at least one or two of the software programs created by Sysinternals in their bag of tools that they carry always with them. Disk2vhd is the latest software program released by Microsoft’s Sysinternals division. It [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Autoruns 9.5
Autoruns is probably the most popular and advanced Windows startup manager. It is a portable lightweight application that can be used to configure practically anything that deals with files that are loaded during the Windows system start. It goes beyond a simple application that lists programs in some of the possible locations that can contain [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Software Management: Sysinternals And Nirsoft System Control
Two of the most popular and respected software developers are NirSoft and Sysinternals. They both produce high quality software programs for the Windows operating system that is often considered the best of its kind. The sheer amount of software programs makes it sometimes difficulty to keep an overview of the programs. That’s where the portable [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Windows System Control Center
If you ask Windows system administrators about their favorite non commercial software publishers the names Nirsoft and Sysinternals will be mentioned without doubt lots of times. Both produce high quality software that can be useful in many occasions. Windows System Control Center is a frontend for Nirsoft and Sysinternals software programs. The portable software displays [...]